Berry Craig

Berry Craig is an emeritus professor of history at the West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah and a freelance writer. He is a member of American Federation of Teachers Local 1360, the recording secretary for the Western Kentucky Area Council, AFL-CIO, and the author of True Tales of Old-Time Kentucky Politics: Bombast, Bourbon and Burgoo, Hidden History of Kentucky in the Civil War, Hidden History of Kentucky Soldiers and Hidden History of Western Kentucky. He is a native of Mayfield, Ky., where he lives with his wife of going on 38 years and their 23-year-old son.

resident Trump is slumping in the national polls, but evidently he’s still playing in Peoria—Oklahoma. “In Trump Country, Shock at Trump Budget Cuts, but Still Loyalty,” read the headline on a recent Nicholas Kristoff musing in the New York Times. The columnist had huddled with Trump voters in the Sooner State. “Democrats gleeful at the […]

Berry Craig: Matthews presents himself as a gritty, working-class champion who stands up to powerful politicians and their flacks like Conway. More often than not, he goes after them. In the Conway interview, he played lapdog, not watchdog.

Berry Craig: More than a few Confederate battle flags fluttered above Trump yard signs and flapped at Trump rallies in Dixie and in border states like Kentucky, where I was born, reared and still live.

Berry Craig: At least Trump is a consistent truth-twister. His fibs range from the vapid—like taking credit for “saving” Ford jobs in the Falls City—to venal—like linking Sen. Ted Cruz’s father to the Kennedy assassination.

Berry Craig: Billionaire Trump should thank the nation’s founders—well-heeled and powerful white men—for creating the electoral college. Their aim was to make sure that only guys like them could be president.